On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:17:28AM -0500, John Thacker wrote: > Yet, since so many Korean fonts are based on KS X 1001 / KS > C 5601, it's reasonable to follow it and not include the > extra precomposed syllables, and restrict to only the Hangul > syllables in the list Tor provided. However, the 4882 Hanja > are definitely part of the standard no matter what. I'm > somewhat surprised that so many fonts would not have them at > all, but it certainly must be easier. (Just as it's easier > to not include accented characters in fonts designed for > English.) A similar situation exists for Chinese fonts: Many commercial traditional Chinese fonts (esp. if they are "decorative" in some sense) used to only contain the "frequently used" portion of Big5; such fonts would not be detected as Chinese fonts. However, I haven't been using commercial Chinese fonts for the past few years, so the above is likely very outdated information and probably no longer true. That said, I still imagine the fonts that are missing the hanja would likely to also be "decorative" in nature, or used for emphasis, etc.
